Editing Cubism (section)

===La Maison Cubiste (Cubist House)===
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[[File:Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1912, Projet d'hôtel, Maquette de la façade de la Maison Cubiste, published in Les Peintres Cubistes, 1913.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|[[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]], 1912, Study for ''La Maison Cubiste, Projet d'Hotel (Cubist House)''. Image published in ''Les 
Peintres Cubistes'', by Guillaume Apollinaire, 17 March 1913]]
[[File:La Maison Cubiste, Le Salon Bourgeois, Salon d'Automne, 1912, Paris.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|''Le Salon Bourgeois'', designed by [[André Mare]] for  ''La Maison Cubiste'', in the decorative arts section of the {{lang|fr|Salon d'Automne|italic=no}}, 1912, Paris. Metzinger's ''[[Femme à l'Éventail]]'' on the left wall]]

At the 1912 {{lang|fr|[[Salon d'Automne]]|italic=no}} an architectural installation was exhibited that quickly became known as ''Maison Cubiste'' (Cubist House), with architecture by [[Raymond Duchamp-Villon]] and interior decoration by [[André Mare]] along with a group of collaborators. Metzinger and Gleizes in ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]'', written during the assemblage of the "Maison Cubiste", wrote about the autonomous nature of art, stressing the point that decorative considerations should not govern the spirit of art. Decorative work, to them, was the "antithesis of the picture". "The true picture" wrote Metzinger and Gleizes, "bears its ''raison d'être'' within itself. It can be moved from a church to a [[drawing-room]], from a museum to a study. Essentially independent, necessarily complete, it need not immediately satisfy the mind: on the contrary, it should lead it, little by little, towards the fictitious depths in which the coordinative light resides. It does not harmonize with this or that ensemble; it harmonizes with things in general, with the universe: it is an organism...".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.learn.columbia.edu/monographs/picmon/pdf/art_hum_reading_46.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602141918/http://www.learn.columbia.edu/monographs/picmon/pdf/art_hum_reading_46.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinge, except from ''Du Cubisme'', 1912|archive-date=June 2, 2013}}</ref>

''La Maison Cubiste'' was a fully furnished model house, with a  facade, a staircase, wrought iron banisters, and two rooms:  a living room—the ''Salon Bourgeois'', where paintings by Marcel Duchamp, Metzinger (''Woman with a Fan''), Gleizes, Laurencin and Léger were hung, and a bedroom. It was an example of ''L'art décoratif'', a home within which Cubist art could be displayed in the comfort and style of modern, bourgeois life. Spectators at the {{lang|fr|Salon d'Automne|italic=no}} passed through the plaster facade, designed by Duchamp-Villon, to the two furnished rooms.<ref>[http://www.kubisme.info/kt324a.html La Maison Cubiste, 1912] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313233214/http://www.kubisme.info/kt324a.html |date=2013-03-13 }}</ref> This architectural installation was subsequently exhibited at the 1913 [[Armory Show]], New York, Chicago and Boston,<ref>[http://www.kubisme.info/kt315s.html Kubistische werken op de Armory Show] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313233210/http://www.kubisme.info/kt315s.html |date=2013-03-13 }}</ref> listed in the catalogue of the New York exhibit as Raymond Duchamp-Villon, number 609, and entitled ''"Facade architectural, plaster"'' (''Façade architecturale'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/detail-duchampvillons-faade-architecturale-14604|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314150144/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/detail-duchampvillons-faade-architecturale-14604|url-status=dead|title=Detail of Duchamp-Villon's Façade architecturale, 1913, from the Walt Kuhn Family papers and Armory Show records, 1859–1984, bulk 1900–1949|archive-date=March 14, 2013|website=www.aaa.si.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/catnter00unse|title=Catalogue of international exhibition of modern art: at the Armory of the Sixty-ninth Infantry|date=April 19, 1913|publisher=Association of American Painters and Sculptors|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>
[[File:Jacques Doucet's hôtel particulier, 33 rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1929 photograph Pierre Legrain.jpg|thumb|upright=1.00|[[Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)|Jacques Doucet]]'s hôtel particulier, 33 rue Saint-James, Neuilly-sur-Seine]]
The furnishings, wallpaper, upholstery and carpets of the interior were designed by [[André Mare]], and were early examples of the influence of cubism on what would become [[Art Deco]].  They were composed of very brightly colored roses and other floral patterns in stylized geometric forms.

Mare called the living room in which Cubist paintings were hung the ''Salon Bourgeois''. Léger described this name as 'perfect'. In a letter to Mare prior to the exhibition Léger wrote: "Your idea is absolutely splendid for us, really splendid. People will see Cubism in its domestic setting, which is very important.<ref name="moma.org"/>

"Mare's ensembles were accepted as frames for Cubist works because they allowed paintings and sculptures their independence", Christopher Green wrote, "creating a play of contrasts, hence the involvement not only of Gleizes and Metzinger themselves, but of Marie Laurencin, the Duchamp brothers (Raymond Duchamp-Villon designed the facade) and Mare's old friends Léger and Roger La Fresnaye".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlY6SLmg-xEC&q=%22maison+cubiste%22+1912&pg=PA161|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130140743/https://books.google.com/books?id=vlY6SLmg-xEC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=%22maison+cubiste%22+1912&source=bl&ots=jv-hGOpwJc&sig=0m8pM6Oi2mPGtmB6uB0Fe3s9YAQ&hl=en|url-status=dead|title=Art in France, 1900–1940|first=Christopher|last=Green|date=January 1, 2000|archive-date=November 30, 2016|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn = 0300099088|via=Google Books}}</ref>

In 1927, Cubists [[Joseph Csaky]], [[Jacques Lipchitz]], [[Louis Marcoussis]], [[Henri Laurens]], the sculptor [[Gustave Miklos]], and others collaborated in the decoration of a Studio House, rue Saint-James, [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], designed by the architect Paul Ruaud and owned by the French fashion designer [[Jacques Doucet (fashion designer)|Jacques Doucet]], also a collector of [[Post-Impressionist]] and Cubist paintings (including ''[[Les Demoiselles d'Avignon]]'', which he bought directly from Picasso's studio). Laurens designed the fountain, Csaky designed Doucet's staircase,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vlY6SLmg-xEC&q=%22jacques+doucet%22+staircase+by+joseph+csaky&pg=PA57 |title=Joseph Csaky's staircase in the home of Jacques Doucet |isbn=0300099088 |access-date=18 December 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430202312/https://books.google.com/books?id=vlY6SLmg-xEC&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=%22jacques+doucet%22+staircase+by+joseph+csaky&source=bl&ots=jvZeOQqDNb&sig=FF6sbrEJ7QnZEljAmyquHlR6oJI&hl=fr#v=onepage&q=%22jacques%20doucet%22%20staircase%20by%20joseph%20csaky&f=false |archive-date=30 April 2016 |last1=Green |first1=Christopher |year=2000 |publisher=Yale University Press }}</ref> Lipchitz made the fireplace mantel, and Marcoussis made a Cubist rug.<ref>{{cite web |first=Aestheticus |last=Rex |url=http://aestheticusrex.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/jacques-doucets-studio-st-james-at.html |title=Jacques Doucet's Studio St. James at Neuilly-sur-Seine |publisher=Aestheticusrex.blogspot.com.es |date=14 April 2011 |access-date=18 December 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327104507/http://aestheticusrex.blogspot.com.es/2011/04/jacques-doucets-studio-st-james-at.html |archive-date=27 March 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fcKfjM9OknEC&q=jacques+doucet%2C+rue+Saint-James%2C+Neuilly&pg=PA56 |title=''The Modernist Garden in France'', Dorothée Imbert, 1993, Yale University Press |isbn=0300047169 |access-date=18 December 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430165254/https://books.google.com/books?id=fcKfjM9OknEC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=jacques+doucet,+rue+Saint-James,+Neuilly&source=bl&ots=QqQ4m-jgXG&sig=5RJ8fjC4pmSaCE2b9sRNDNN3IfM&hl=en#v=onepage&q=jacques%20doucet%2C%20rue%20Saint-James%2C%20Neuilly&f=false |archive-date=30 April 2016 |last1=Imbert |first1=Dorothée |year=1993 |publisher=Yale University Press }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUPz18-QeyEC&q=jacques+doucet%2C+joseph+Csaky&pg=PA5 |title=Joseph Csáky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, Edith Balas, 1998, p. 5 |isbn=9780871692306 |access-date=18 December 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430153058/https://books.google.com/books?id=rUPz18-QeyEC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=jacques+doucet,+joseph+Csaky&source=bl&ots=wywyzJn6BX&sig=SeI2no9a60nGo0uIEfOSpbjxWVM&hl=en#v=onepage&q=jacques%20doucet%2C%20joseph%20Csaky&f=false |archive-date=30 April 2016 |last1=Balas |first1=Edith |year=1998 |publisher=American Philosophical Society }}</ref>